Dark Gods In The Blood | By : Hayseed Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 3951 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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A/N: Continuing to
bite my tongue frantically! But we’re
getting very close to the end, so I can probably hang on. Thanks for reading!
Summary: A wandering
student comes home, a broken man pays his penance, and a gruesome murder is
both more and less than it seems. Some paths
to self-discovery have more twists and turns than others.
Rating: R, for
intermittent dark themes, violence, and language
Disclaimer: Nothing
you read here (save the plot and bits of the text itself) belongs to me. Harry Potter and his cronies are the
property of JK Rowling and Warner Bros. (and someone else, probably, but not
me). All chapter headings are properly
credited to their sources.
Dark Gods in the Blood
by: Hayseed (hayseed_42@hotmail.com)
Chapter Twenty-Five
He
cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision -- he
cried out
twice, a cry that was no more than a breath -- ‘The
horror! The horror!’ I blew out the candle and left the cabin.
-- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“I think this is a
terrible idea,” Severus said flatly.
“Besides, you don’t even know if it’s related.”
“But it’s a good
opportunity,” Granger protested. “The
crime scene is virtually untouched,
according to Kingsley, other than the removal of the bodies. And it has to be related -- the M.O. is nearly identical. Single incision down the torso, death from
blood loss. They even recovered a
teacup from the scene that had crushed hemlock mixed in with the tealeaves in
the bottom. It’s got to be our fellow.”
He frowned. “A second victim, Granger?”
“The wife,” she
confirmed, glancing down at the parchment in her hand -- it appeared to be an
informal letter of sorts. “She was
found in a different room than the husband.”
“And how did she die?” he
pressed.
Granger blew out a sigh,
clearly frustrated. “All right,” she
conceded. “A fairly routine, although
rather grisly, stabbing. Not exactly to
the letter, I’ll admit.”
“And what was the other
thing you told me about her?” Severus asked, wanting to push her past her
limit.
But Granger wasn’t having
it. “She was a Muggle,” she replied
demurely.
Pouncing triumphantly,
Severus pulled out all the stops. “A
Muggle,” he cried, waving his hand through the air to emphasize his point. “Killed in a completely different
manner. What makes you think this is a
related case? Your victims were on the
verge of a divorce, even -- not quite the picturesque lifestyle of the previous
ones.”
With a vicious glare, she
crumpled the parchment in between her fingers.
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